Symposium by GQUAL on CEDAW’s GR40: Reinvigorating Equal and Inclusive Participation of Women in International Decision-making – CEDAW’s General Recommendation 40 and a Renewed Interpretation of Article 8 of the CEDAW Convention
[Claudia Martin is a Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law and a Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat.] General Recommendation 40 (‘GR 40’), adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (‘CEDAW’), provides a roadmap to address the persistent failure of equal and inclusive sharing of power in...